Date(s)April 20, 2023
Time10:00 - 11:30
Zoom Webinar
Language(s)English
Description
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Nicolas Tackett of the University of California, Berkeley describes important prosopographic databases available to Tang and Song historians, suggesting some of their uses and limitations. Nicolas Tackett pays particular attention to what these databases reveal about the very different structures of the Tang and Song political elites, not to mention the very different structures of the Tang and Song states.
Discussant: Erik H. Wang (Australian National University)
Note: Erik will join New York University in Fall 2023
Live on Zoom on April 20, 2023 | |
10:00 | Hong Kong/Beijing/Singapore |
11:00 | Tokyo |
12:00 | Sydney |
Previous day 19:00 | Los Angeles |
Previous day 22:00 | New York |
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The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series aims to provide researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to keep up to date with the latest research in the field, promoting the dissemination of research findings and interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. The QH Webinar Series, now entering its fourth year, is co-organized by Centre for Quantitative History at the HKU Business School and International Society for Quantitative History in partnership with Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The Series is now substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. [AoE/B-704/22-R]).
量化歷史網上講座系列由香港大學陳志武和馬馳騁教授聯合發起，旨在介紹前沿量化歷史研究成果、促進同仁交流，推廣量化方法在歷史研究中的應用。本系列講座由香港大學經管學院量化歷史研究中心和國際量化歷史學會承辦，及香港人文社會研究所全力支持。從2023年開始，系列得到中國香港特別行政區研究資助局卓越學科領域計劃的重要資助 (項目編號[AoE/B-704/22-R])。
Conveners: Professor Zhiwu Chen & Dr. Chicheng Ma (HKU Business School)